Program Manager, Sustainability

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Location: San Jose, CA 
Department: Corporate Sustainability 
Reports To: Director, Sustainability Disclosure 

Job Type: Full-Time 

We are seeking a sustainability communications and employee engagement expert to join our corporate sustainability team. This role will be responsible for developing and implementing ESG communication strategies that amplify stakeholder value, engaging employees to drive change management through strategic activities and events, and designing programs to embed sustainability into key business functions and decisions. 

The ideal candidate will be an expert communicator with deep understanding of ESG frameworks, concepts, and change theories, combined with strong capabilities to engage employees and influence cross-functional groups without direct authority.  

Job Overview: 

We are seeking a sustainability communications and employee engagement expert to join our corporate sustainability team. This role will be responsible for developing and implementing ESG communication strategies that amplify stakeholder value, engaging employees to drive change management through strategic activities and events, and designing programs to embed sustainability into key business functions and decisions. 

The ideal candidate will be an expert communicator with deep understanding of ESG frameworks, concepts, and change theories, combined with strong capabilities to engage employees and influence cross-functional groups without direct authority.  

Key Responsibilities: 

1. Sustainability communications 

• Develop and implement robust communication strategies that build trust, drive engagement, and enhance reputation. 

• Collaborate with Marketing, PR, and Comms to develop timely, meaningful and high-quality assets, including blogs, press releases, white papers, and thought leadership articles.   

• Develop resources and templates to enable Sales and support customer-facing sustainability communications. 

• Manage, maintain, and update content and resources on WD sustainability websites.   

• Support development of sustainability program decks, presentations, and artifacts.  

• Drive strategy, programming, and narratives for sustainability efforts at key industry conferences and company events.   

1. Employee engagement, educations, and trainings 

• Organize events and activities to engage and mobilize employees for sustainability causes.  

• Design employee-facing sustainability training and education programs, driving high participation rates and concrete actions.  

• Create and promote employee-facing sustainability resources, including playbooks, toolkits, and how-to-guides.   

• Establish a sustainability-focused Employee Resource Group (ERG) and relevant charter to help educate and engage the broader organization.   

1. Embed sustainability into business operations and decisions 

• Build strong relationships with sustainability champions in all business functions.  

• Engage all functions to identify and incubate ESG-related change management opportunities, establish business cases, and develop meaningful and actionable commitments and KPIs in alignment with business goals and values.   

• Track, quantify, and communicate the value and impacts of sustainability initiatives.  

• Integrate sustainability commitments and KPIs into relevant teams' annual planning and goal setting processes.  

Education:  

• Bachelor's degree in communications, marketing, environmental science, sustainability, or a related field. A Master's degree is a plus. 

Experience and skills: 

• 7+ years of experience in ESG communication and engagement.  

• Sustainability domain knowledge and expertise (climate, environment, water, circularity, etc.) 

• Proven record in developing effective communication strategies and generating high impact content and stories for all key audiences.  

• Experience in sustainability training design and technical writing. 

• Experience in mobilizing a big group of employees and organizing sustainability activities.  

• Experience in developing business cases and driving change management efforts.  

• Excellent project management skills, and ability to execute in a complex, fast-paced large corporate environment. 

• Natural affinity to be reflective, to learn from challenges, and demonstrate resilience. 

• Highly motivated, self-starter, results-oriented with the ability to work on multiple deliverables at the same time and drive projects to completion. 

Why Join Us? 

• Be part of a leading organization dedicated to making a positive impact on the world through sustainable practices. 

• Work in a dynamic and collaborative environment that values innovation, sustainability, and personal growth. 

• Competitive compensation package and benefits. 

Western Digital is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. 

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.

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Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 12/4/25, although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.